ReviewDB
| ReviewDB | |
|---|---|
 ReviewDB showcase | |
| Status | Active |
| Official Website | reviewdb.mantikafasi.dev |
| Repository | mantikafasi/ServerGo |
ReviewDB (formerly known as UserReviews) is an Aliucord plugin made by Mantikafasi on July 1, 2022. It allows people to review other Discord users. When the plugin was first released, it only had the review feature. As the number of users increased, self-made review deletion and reporting features were added.
Ports
To make it universal, Mantikafasi and other developers ported ReviewDB into other client mods.
- BetterDiscord: Ported on 2 August 2022 via Ittai. Got rejected by BetterDiscord reviewers.
- Replugged: Ported on 8 August 2022 via Ittai.
- Vencord: Ported on November 16, 2022.
- Enmity: Ported in early 2023 spin and Rosie.
- Vendetta: Ported sometime in 2023 by Maisy.
- Twitter: Ported on 6 June 2022.
Website and Dashboard
On April 9 2023, a Website and Dashboard was made by spin.
The dashboard initially only allowed people to look at reviews via Discord ID. However, as people increasingly requested to opt-out, a page for opting out was added.
A download page was also added to facilitate downloading. This page provided links to download ReviewDB for all available client mods it supported.
Features
With ReviewDB, you can review Discord users, servers, and bots. By default, anyone can review you. You can opt out of ReviewDB via the ReviewDB dashboard. You can report reviews on any profile by pressing the flag icon next to each review. This will send it to the administrators, who may then delete it and ban the user for anywhere between one day and one month.
On Vencord, you can also delete reviews from your profile and block users from reviewing you directly on your user reviews page.
Reception
ReviewDB has mostly been well received. However, there are occasional complaints about harassment. The ability to opt out of being reviewed has been added in response.
On Oct 8th, 2023, ReviewDB was removed from Vencord[1] due to a disagreement over its moderation between Vendicated and Mantikafasi. More specifically, Vendicated wanted users to be able to delete reviews from their profiles to counter abuse and harassment effectively.
This led to Mantikafasi creating his own Vencord fork VencordPlus[2] with ReviewDB included. However, this fork saw minimal adoption.
On January 14, 2024, they agreed, and Mantikafasi added the ability to delete reviews from one's profile and to block up to 50 users. Thus, ReviewDB was readded to Vencord.[3]
Trivia
- The ReviewDB server was originally written in Python using the Flask library. But because the library was single threaded and the code was a mess, it was rewritten in Golang.
- Previous versions of the server treated users from different client mods as different users, this allowed people to send multiple reviews on the same profile.
- From March 9, 2024, to March 11, 2024, the ReviewDB website was blacklisted by Avast.
- On March 8, 2024, the server hosting the ReviewDB dashboard was deleted by its provider, Oracle, causing a two-day outage. Subsequently, the dashboard was moved to Cloudflare Pages.
- Around early February, mantikafasi experimented with letting an AI bot named "Rule Creator," powered by Google Gemini review users. As one might imagine, this did not go well, and the bot was automatically banned from ReviewDB by its automatic slur filters.